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Ok this a bit off topic for these forums but you guys always seem to have the answers I need. So anyway i have a Gateway PC i bought with windows 98 on it. the harddrive eventually crashed and now makes a nice paperweight, but the Gateway didnt come with a Win98 install disk, just a system restore thing. As my warrenty had long expired i borrowed a disk from a friend and reinstalled 98, he also gave me his WinXP upgrade disk. Now my comp has all kind of fatal errors in it, i have found the path to fixing my problems is as simple as downloading the latest patches from WindowsUpdate, but as my XP disk is borrowed i cannot access WindowsUpdate.
so anyway my question is if I buy an upgrade copy of XP and use a borrowed copy of 98 to install from, will this get me access to Update or must i buy the full $300 version?
thanks so much for your time
Stutesman

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i know that 'borrowing' the windows disk isnt exactly legal, but i did pay for windows 98 and see no reason that i should have to pay for it again. I only installed the borrowed XP while the owner was present to deside if i thought it would be worth the upgrade. Now i would like to upgrade (i can afford $89 but not $300) but im not sure that i can without my own win 98 cd-key. did gateway screw me over or what?